News
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Ghost Bat enters Pacific exercise testing with allied combat aircraft. Boeing’s MQ-28 now faces a harder test of autonomy, payload integration, sustainment, and production discipline.
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US cyber deadlines are turning encryption into a contractor issue. The move toward post-quantum cryptography will force defence suppliers to map algorithms, certificates, embedded systems, software, communications links, manufacturing networks, and long-life platform support.
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Northrop Grumman will produce programmable ammunition for US Abrams tanks. The five-year M1147 contract supports a US Army shift toward a multi-purpose 120mm round, concentrating production demands around fuze electronics, energetic materials, qualification, quality assurance, and ammunition supply-chain reliability.
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Poland has selected V-BAT systems for Polish naval surveillance missions. The ship-compatible VTOL UAS gives the Polish Navy a compact ISR option for Baltic operations, where deck footprint, endurance, electronic warfare resilience, supportability, and rapid maintenance shape operational value.
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Estonia has received its first IRIS-T SLM fire unit now. The delivery adds a medium-range air-defence layer to NATO’s north-eastern flank while increasing pressure on European launcher, radar, missile, command-post, training, maintenance, and stockpile production capacity.
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Rheinmetall and Lockheed Martin have armed Fuchs with JAGM missiles. The missile-carrier concept brings dense precision fires onto a 6×6 vehicle, creating an integration challenge across launcher safety, reloadability, digital architecture, missile supply, field maintenance, and vehicle survivability.
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MBDA’s CROSSBOW has completed firing trials after rapid development work. The ground-launched weapon is being shaped around range, payload, modularity, and production speed as Europe looks for deep-fires systems that can be manufactured in useful quantities.
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Poland is advancing plans to buy Airbus tanker aircraft soon. A potential A330 MRTT acquisition would add strategic refuelling and transport capacity on NATO’s eastern flank, while creating long-term demand across conversion, mission equipment, sustainment, training, spares, and depot support.
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Skyhammer has gained a clearer counter-drone performance reference point today. The UK turbojet interceptor’s reported effectiveness figure now shifts attention toward production repeatability, seeker performance, training, launch support, and quality control as demand rises for lower-cost kinetic air-defence systems.
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Boeing will modernise Poseidon aircraft for American and Australian fleets. The $121.2m order reinforces the industrial weight of maritime patrol sustainment, where sensor refresh, mission-system updates, retrofit capacity, and allied interoperability now shape anti-submarine warfare readiness.